impossibility

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

/ɪmˌpɒsɪˈbɪliti/ /ɪmˌpɑsɪˈbɪliti/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-impossibility.wav

impossibility impossibilities

From Middle French impossibilité, from Latin impossibilitās. By surface analysis, im- + possibility and impossible + -ity.

castle in the air impossibility pie in the sky pipe dream inability incapability helplessness

certainty inevitability possibility sure thing

absurdity

Abel's impossibility theorem

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